ALRS Students in the News!
The last 3 months we have seen quite a few of the ALRS students in the news:
Marie Blanche Roudaut
Marie Blanche Roudaut co-wrote an article last summer with Associate Professor Gregg Garfin and Assistant Professor Laura Bakkensen. The paper's title is: Developing a Comprehensive Methodology for Evaluating Economic Impacts of Floods in Canada, Mexico and the United States. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Please find the link to the paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101861(link is external)
Marie-Blanche's research focuses on land degradation and sustainable land management practices in the semi-arid region of northern Ghana, where the livelihoods and agro-ecosystems on which farmers and agro-pastoralists depend are threatened by poverty, environmental degradation, increasing competition over resources, and global climate change.
Simone Williams
Simone Williams’ poster was accepted and will be displayed at the virtual conference of the USGIF GEOIntegration Summit
Simone Williams is an incoming ALRS PhD student for Fall 2020. Already she is able to have her poster accepted in tn the USGIF GEOIntergration Summit Virtual event, September 28-29, 2020. Simone is from Jamaica, but she completed her MS in Earth & Environmental Resource Management from the University of South Crolina in 2006. She has an ABD in Geographical & Sustainability Science from the University of Iowa. Her research proposal will be on: Water Security: Groundwater Resources and Climate Change Vulnerability, Impact and Adaptations in Critical Geographic Areas(Arid\Semi-Arid Regions,Islands and Urban Areas
Since starting his PhD program in the Arid Lands Resource Sciences in the Fall 2016 semester Drew Eppehimer has published 3 articles. The most recent one: “Evaluating the potential of treated effluent as novel habitats,for aquatic invertebrates in arid regions”” appeared in the July 2020 issue of Hydrobiologia, The International Journal of Aquatic Sciences. (link is external)
Drew is studying the diversity and structure of aquatic macroinvertebrate communities, water quality and quantity issues, and the impacts of microplastic pollution on aquatic communities in wastewater-dominated streams.
Karina Guadalupe Martínez-Molina
Karina wrote a collaborative article with Associate Professor Stephanie Buechler which was published in the Energy Research & Social Science Journal(link is external), December 2020.
“Patriarchy and (electric) power? A feminist political ecology of solar energy use in Mexico and the United States”
This research project was a binational study of large and small-scale wind and solar energy projects in Arizona and Mexico and was conducted by a binational research team. An energy justice framework was used to explore the effects of these projects on women's daily lives and livelihoods. Large-scale renewable energy projects were used to supply urban populations with energy, whereas small-scale renewable energy projects were tailored by user groups in both rural and urban locations to facilitate multiple facets of women's needs. An energy justice frame served to examine these issues from the standpoint of place, age, gender and social class. Read the article here.